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rescue him after he was thrown onto the wires following an auto accident in Blue Springs, Mo. Thompson spent 20 minutes hanging onto the wire before he was rescued and was not injured in the incident.
A woman threads a live snake up her nose and out her mouth during a performance at the Temple of the Earth fair on the eve of Chinese New Year in Beijing Friday 2003. Thousands crowded the fair Friday in early celebrations of the Year of the Goat, which begins Saturday.
Cathie Jung of Mystic, Conn., wears a corset during the Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show exhibition and sale Friday, 2003 in New York. At 15 inches she is the holder of the Guinness Book of World Records smallest waisted living person. Russian President Vladimir Putin , left, and Dobby, the house elf character from the movie 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,'' are shown in this photo combo. Moviegoers around the world have been struck by the resemblance between Putin and Dobby. The BBC even set up a Putin/Dobby poll on its children's web site. Out of 9,188 people who had cast votes as of Friday, Jan. 31, 2003, nearly 57 percent agreed that Putin does look like Dobby. A stranded young Bangladeshi girl holds up a snake on the IndiaBangladesh border at Shatgachi village in West Bengal . More than 200 people, most of them snake charmers and their children, were trapped on the India-Bangladesh border as the neighboring countries argued about which country they came from. Joe Thompson III, age 18, hangs onto utility wires as he waits for emergency workers to
Bruce, the world's longest goldfish, swims with regularsize goldfish at Shanghai Ocean Aquarium February 3, 2003. Named after the late kungfu star Bruce Lee, the male Oranda goldfish measures 43.5 centimetres long (17.1259 inches) from snout to tail-fin end and is certified as the world's largest by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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A young girl squeezes herself into a tube during an acrobatic performance at a temple fair in Beijing on the third day of Chinese New Year . Fairs across the city are crowded with people enjoying performances during their week-long Spring Festival holiday.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein , third from left, meets with Iraqi military personnel in Baghdad, Iraq, in a photo released by the Iraqi News Agency. Although his portraits and statues are everywhere, the Iraqi leader hardly ever appears in public, and until the past month he hadn't been seen much on tightly controlled state television. But lately the personality cult has been dominating the air waves, usually in excerpts of meetings with officers and aides.
In this video image released by NASA at the Kennedy Space Center , seconds after liftoff of Space Shuttle Columbia on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2003, a shower of particles are shown after pieces of debris struck the underside of the LH wing (left hand wing) of the orbiter. According to NASA the debris appears to have originated from the area of the Y bipod attach point on the external tank. The Y bipod is what connects the external fuel tank to the space shuttle. NASA's immediate study of the image determined no damage to the orbier Thermal Protection System was apparent; futher analysis is continuing.
The North Korean Central News Agency released a propaganda poster January 31, 2003 depicting North Korea's military power. North Korea's official media said on February 3 that the communist state's troops were in full combat readiness in case of U.S. aggression, amid signs of rising tensions over the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula. Radio Pyongyang quoted Korean People's Army chiefs as vowing loyalty to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who it said had toured two army units over the weekend as his country vilified the United States over the three-month-old nuclear impasse.
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